Megan Dowsett is a creative consultant working with museums and galleries, and an illustrator who is finding her voice through personal and local projects.

Through the name Norris and the Flamingo, she shares the sense of adventure that runs through all of life, wherever we are on our journey. A sense of imagination, of possibility and discovery, for children and adults alike.

23 September 2015

With rain, husband and child, I didn't find so many opportunities to sketch 'live' in Norway. It always seems to me that I should be drawing 'the real thing' while I can, but more often I found myself looking at things to remember them, and trying to figure out how I might draw them later. It's quite liberating to throw the 'observational
drawing rulebook' out of the window and experiment with drawing from memory and imagination! One day, I was at Kinsarvik and tried to figure out just how to make water 'move'. I did a few quick drawings out, and a few more quick experiments that evening. Not there yet - this is a challenge to explore further!